Title :
An experiment in developing small mobile phone applications comparing on-phone to off-phone development
Author :
Nguyen, Tuan A. ; Rumee, Sarker T A ; Csallner, Christoph ; Tillmann, Nikolai
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Abstract :
TouchDevelop represents a radically new mobile application development model, as TouchDevelop enables mobile application development on a mobile device. I.e., with TouchDevelop, the task of programming say a Windows Phone is shifted from the desktop computer to the mobile phone itself. We describe a first experiment on independent, non-expert subjects to compare programmer productivity using TouchDevelop vs. using a more traditional approach to mobile application development.
Keywords :
mobile computing; mobile handsets; software engineering; TouchDevelop; Windows phone; desktop computer; mobile application development model; off-phone development; on-phone development; small mobile phone applications development; Androids; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Productivity; Programming; Smart phones;
Conference_Titel :
User Evaluation for Software Engineering Researchers (USER), 2012
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1858-7
DOI :
10.1109/USER.2012.6226586
